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Valley of the Squinting Windows is a classic Irish novel set in an unnamed village in the Irish Midlands ( a thinly disguised Devlin, Westmeath) .named Garradrimna. Garradrimna is a tiny village where everyone is interested in everyone else's business - and usually wishes them to fail. Twenty years before the events of the book, Nan Byrne has a relationship with a local man, Henry Shannon, hoping to marry him for his wealth. She falls pregnant but Henry refuses to marry her. After a miscarriage, the baby is buried at the bottom of the garden. Henry marries another woman and later dies, while Nan emigrates to England and marries Ned Brennan. They later move back to Garradrimna, where the villagers rejoice in telling Ned about his wife's past....